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What's Cooking at Our House: Dosas and Pizza

May 18, 2013

On the home menu: dosas and pizza.

There are many kinds of flat breads and crepes in the various world cuisines; we recently made two: pizza and dosas. The pizza crust is a yeast-bread, stretched flat after mixing without being allowed to rise. The pizza sauce is also home-made.

(The roses are from one of our three climbing roses.)

Dosas are a south Indian crepe made with rice flour and ground black lentil (urad dal). The batter is allowed to ferment slightly for a tangy taste. In some regions of South India, the batter is left plain; in the area where my brother has spent time, finely chopped cilantro, onions and grated carrots are added:

It takes time to cook dosas to the ideal crispy texture; patience is required, but amply rewarded. Yum!

"A healthy homecooked family meal and a home garden are revolutionary acts."





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This Month's entries:

What's Cooking at Our House: Dosas and Pizza
(May 18, 2013)

Tune In, Turn On, Opt Out
(May 17, 2013)

The Trick to Suppressing Revolution: Keeping Debt/Tax Serfdom Bearable
(May 16, 2013)

The Brewing Generational Conflict
(May 15, 2013)

A Brief History of Cycles and Time, Part 2 (guest essay)
(May 14, 2013)

A Brief History of Cycles and Time, Part 1 (guest essay)
(May 13, 2013)

What's Cooking at Our House: Tacos
(May 11, 2013)

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Next Bull Market
(May 10, 2013)

Degrowth and Anti-Consumerism
(May 9, 2013)

The Widening Chasm
(May 8, 2013)

Bernanke's Neofeudal Rentier Economy
(May 7, 2013)

What Is Obvious About This Market?
(May 6, 2013)

Part 46: An unstable elixir ready to boil over (serialized fiction)
(May 4, 2013)

College Grads: It's a Different Economy
(May 3, 2013)

The Mobile Gold Rush
(May 2, 2013)

The Fatal Disease of the Status Quo: Diminishing Returns
(May 1, 2013)


Bubble Symmetry and Housing
(April 30, 2013)

Wall Street Is a Rentier Rip-Off: Index Funds Beat 99.6% of Managers Over Ten Years
(April 29, 2013)

What's Been Cooking at Our House
(April 27, 2013)

China 2.0 Is in Trouble
(April 26, 2013)

The Way Forward
(April 25, 2013)

Why Krugman and the Keynesians Are Lackeys for the Neofeudal Debtocracy
(April 24, 2013)


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